The Region 13 Chairperson of Lion Club, District 404B2, Mrs Yetunde Oni says the organization will continue to do everything within it’s best to give succor to less privileged and vulnerable persons in the society.
Mrs Oni who stated this during the Thanksgiving Service for the commencement of the 2023/2024 service year of the Lions Club International, District 404B2 Nigeria held in Ado Ekiti noted that the primary objective of the club is to put smiles on the faces of people and build a better society.
She highlighted some of the projects the Lions Clubs had carried out in Ekiti State to include donation of a Diabetes Screening Centre at the State Secretariat, Ado-Ekiti, Diabetes Screening & Diagnostic Block at the Ekiti University Teaching Hospital (EKSUTH) and a Solar Installation at the Heath Centre, Aisegba-Ekiti.
Mrs Oni noted that what had been done were just tips of an iceberg saying much more will still be embarked upon hence she sought the support of corporate bodies, individuals and governments towards touching more lives.
She said:”Lions Clubs International was established by Melvin Jones in 1917 to help the less privileged and the needy in the society
“This thanksgiving services in the mosque and the church are to usher in the new Lions service year 2023/2024.
She added that Ekiti State is lucky to have one of its sons, Lion Prof. Dayo Fagbohun, a lecturer at the Ekiti State University as the current District Governor for District 404-B2 Nigeria of Lions Clubs International.
At the Thanksgiving Service,
The Administrator in-charge of the Emmanuel Anglican Cathedral, Okesa, Ado-Ekiti, Venerable Simeon Olajobi urged government, Corporate Bodies and Individuals to always extend helping hands to less privileged persons in the society.
During a Jumat service which had earlier been held at the AUD Mosque, along Housing Road, Ado-Ekiti, the Chief Imaam, Alhaji Abdulfati Jamiu urged Nigerians to always cultivate the habit of giving to the less privileged in the society.
Alhaji Jamiu who noted that act of giving is mandatory in the Holy Quran, implored Nigerians to imbibe the act, as exemplified by the Lions Club.
